Improvement in fruning-imflement



ttttd' tatet lJAMES R. WooDWoRTH,

or NUNDA, NEW YORK.

Letters Patent No. 96,294, dated Oetober 26, 1869.

The Schedule referred to in -these Letters Patent and making part af'the same To all whom t't-may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES R. WooDWoR'rH, of

Nonda, in the county of Livingston, in the State of N e v York, have invented a new and useful Implement for Pruning Trees, Shrubs, Sto.; and I do declare that the following is a full, clear, and exaet description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being hadto the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Fignre 1 is a perspective view.

Fignre 2 is a View of the blade, rod, and le ver, detached trom the other parts. l

h is a shaft or pole, either of wood or metal, either hollow, grooved, or solid. should be grooved, so that the rod will pass near the centre. I commonly use half-inch gas-pipe, (inside measure,) with aquarter-ineh rod.

P is a bed-piece, of malleable or wrought-iron, one end of which receives the handle It', and the other end is screwed on the end of the shaft h, or otherwise fastened thereto.

fr is a bed-piece, provided with slots, or their equivaient, t0 guide andhold the knife b, which is fastened by means of screws f and e.

The screw f passes through the bed-piece r, knife b,

andl rodg.

The screw e passes through the slotted arm e, holding the knife, and also serving as a guide to open and shut the knife or shears.

The lower bed-piece P is provided with a slotted When made of wood, it'

arm, a., through which a screw, n, passes, to the end of the lever J.

lis a screw, passing through a slot, m, in the bedpieoe P, fastening the rod g to thelever J, and also serving as a guide to produce a parallel motion.

It will be seen that by raising or spreading vthe lever J, the knife b will be shoved'up, by means of the rod g, and the serew e, by following the slot' or guide, will cause the shears to open. Then, by drawing the handles together, shuts them,thereby cutting oli` any limb or shrub that might be within the shears.

To shortenv them, for low work, I take out the long shaft, ,and put in a shorter one, thereby altering the length of the implement, without altering either extremity, which is very'oonvenient.

What I olaim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is as follows:

1. The slotted bed-piece P, in the handle 7c, in oombination with the lever J and rod g, by means of whichv the shears are operated, substantially in themanner described.

2. The pruning-shears, composed of bed-piece' lr,

slotted arm c, and knife b, when operated by means of a lever, J, and rod, g, fastened 'to said level', and se ,cured thereto by a screw, working inthe slotted armhandle, substantially in the manner and for the purf 

